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informer's privilege

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United States Supreme Court

the Government's privilege to withhold from disclosure the identity of persons who furnish information of violations of law to officers charged with enforcement of that law

Defined by the Supreme Court in - Roviaro v. United States, 353 U.S. 53 (1957).